Creating a community of game-changers
is at the center of our department, exhibited not only in our expert faculty
but our future expert students.
- Brandon Cruickshank
- Jennifer Duis: Dr. Duis is interested in exploring students' understanding of fundamental chemistry concepts and developing valid and reliable tests to assess these understandings. She is also interested in curriculum improvement through systematic development of goals, implementation of research based practices, and assessment of the outcomes from these changes.
- Cindy Browder: Dr. Browder is interested in new approaches to the preparation of compounds of medicinal interest, and application of organic chemistry to the development of materials for alternate energy systems. Browder Group website
- Edgar Civitello (Chair)
- Marin Robinson: Dr. Robinson is interested in the composition and transport of atmospheric particulate matter in forest fires and windblown dust.
Ciarra Greene, chemistry major – Ciarra led a three-year research study aiming to alleviate the harmful effects of uranium mines on the nearby Navajo reservation.